Sunday, February 17, 2008

Research and Readings

Week Three

How could a work be a reading of a theory, another text, another author?

Reader Response TheoryStanley Fishfrom Wikipedia

The reader is an active agent who imparts "real existence" to the work and completes its meaning through interpretation. Literature should be viewed as a performing art in which each reader creates his or her own, possibly unique, text-related performance.

As opposed, see New Criticism, T.S. Eliot, for example, or I.A. Richards